[CCWG-ACCT] CCWG - Proposed Responses to questions on Draft Bylaws

[Nigel Roberts]

The rules that created the original TLDs were supposed to apply 
recursively to all nodes in the tree.

But that principle was abandoned at least two decades ago.

On 04/10/2016 05:34 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> If the CCWG's current position stands, then there is no reason that ICANN cannot make rules at parts of the tree for which it has no responsibility.  It could make a rule requiring me to add some.stupid.label.anvilwalrusden.com, and there would be no reason in principle that it didn't have that authority.  But it does not.
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> Moreover, this retreat by the CCWG is not consistent with the approved document.  The bylaw text and the CCWG proposal are substantively different.
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